Russian strategic aviation overcomes fantastic milestones
Russian long-range aviation has received the latest missiles with a range that was unthinkable just 10 years ago.
Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia about this, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
According to him, the leadership of the Armed Forces is relying on long-range, high-precision ammunition for aviation, and this is not limited to operational-tactical aviation with even new hypersonic missiles with a range of 1–2 thousand kilometers.
“Just 10 years ago, the situation for the Russian Aerospace Forces was completely different and such a range looked fantastic even for strategic aviation. The familiar Su-25 attack aircraft, Su-24M bombers and MiG-29 and Su-27 fighters were extremely limited in the choice of guided weapons. And the few examples of it that were preserved in good condition had a range of tens of kilometers at best. Long-Range Aviation (DA) had almost no non-nuclear cruise missiles,” the expert recalls.
“During the operation in Syria, there was rapid progress in the number of precision-guided weapons used. Strategic bombers used more Kh-101 and Kh-555 cruise missiles there than were used in all exercises and tests. Experience has shown that even in such a conflict, a massive and numerous WTO is necessary, and a modern war without it is completely unthinkable,” Boltenkov emphasized.
In turn, the publication draws attention to the fact that it is now known that several families of new missiles, both traditional and hypersonic, are being developed for Long-Range Aviation. It is expected that their range, even in a non-nuclear version, can reach 4–5 thousand kilometers.
“Such weapons would radically enhance the capabilities of strategic bombers and turn them into an even more powerful force projection tool. The territory of almost the entire planet will be within the reach of YES, even when departing from bases in Russia. At the same time, its numbers and capabilities are planned to be increased through the modernization of existing aircraft, the resumption of production of the Tu-160 and the start of production of the promising Long-Range Aviation complex,” the newspaper writes.
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